Ireckon I was about 14 in 1968 and it was a Dansette. My parents had a radiogram with a record player in it which we used to spin some singles on before the Dansette.
Freddy58 said:was an HMV bought for me for my ninth birthday, in '64. Loved that thing. The first I bought was something I put together, probably when I was 16, in '71. I bought an SP25 mk3, made my own plinth out of mahogany, bought some pre-made cabinets into which I put some 10" Goodmans speakers (twin axiom) and an Amstrad amp which had slide controls, very groovy back in the day *biggrin* I thought it sounded great, but was probably shite in reality.
plastic penguin said:Tricky to answer easily. My dad purchased a cheap stereo record player from Freemans catalogue, and after about 6 months, and listening to a school friend's father's home made turntable I decide to build my own wooden cabinet and dismantled the stereo turntable and fitted it to my wooden box.
After months of saving my pocket money I purchased a second hand (fairly nasty) receiver. As this receiver, made by Minerva, had a MM phono stage I had to replace the old fashioned ceramic cartridge to magnetic but the head shell was too narrow to fit screws. (Don't try this at home, folks) So I stuck it in with plasticine.
This was circa 1976, so i was around 13.
The first proper turntable was Garrard B20 in 1978 (still have it in the loft - and it works)
MakkaPakka said:9!
Locomotion by Kylie Minogue. There was something about the picture of her on the rear cover that drew me to it.
I think my second record may have been I only want to be with you by Samantha Fox.
Bit of a pattern there.
Al ears said:Freddy58 said:was an HMV bought for me for my ninth birthday, in '64. Loved that thing. The first I bought was something I put together, probably when I was 16, in '71. I bought an SP25 mk3, made my own plinth out of mahogany, bought some pre-made cabinets into which I put some 10" Goodmans speakers (twin axiom) and an Amstrad amp which had slide controls, very groovy back in the day *biggrin* I thought it sounded great, but was probably shite in reality.
What, the Amstrad? Surely not FWIW we would appear to be the same age...
Oh, and my first album purchase was 'Relics' by Pink Floyd bought from Woolworths if I recall correctly.
Freddy58 said:Al ears said:Freddy58 said:was an HMV bought for me for my ninth birthday, in '64. Loved that thing. The first I bought was something I put together, probably when I was 16, in '71. I bought an SP25 mk3, made my own plinth out of mahogany, bought some pre-made cabinets into which I put some 10" Goodmans speakers (twin axiom) and an Amstrad amp which had slide controls, very groovy back in the day *biggrin* I thought it sounded great, but was probably shite in reality.
What, the Amstrad? Surely not FWIW we would appear to be the same age...
Oh, and my first album purchase was 'Relics' by Pink Floyd bought from Woolworths if I recall correctly.
Most importantly, it went loud!
Al ears said:Isn't it strange that when our hearing was perfect we insisted on playing everything at full blast and now, when it is less than perfect, we cannot stand loud noises.... Funny old world!
RobinKidderminster said:1968.